Jobs at African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)

Reference No: MTAFX09

Responsibilities

• The role is to help the Bank to achieve its mission “stimulating a consistent expansion and diversification of African trade so as to rapidly increase Africa’s share of global trade, while operating as a first class, profit oriented, socially responsible financial institution and a centre of excellence in African trade matters”. The role will support the Treasurer with the PAPSS Settlement Back Office Settlement Activities. The role will work within an expanding team with a strong demand for team resources.
• The nature and scope of this role is to support the Treasurer’s function that deals with the PAPSS settlement initiative. The incumbent will support the Treasurer and take a supervisory lead role in ensuring that the PAPSS Settlement Process is effectively and efficiently run. The role will also support the Treasurer in developing a solid best-in-class treasury PAPSS function which is a go-to all PAPSS settlement activities.
• The role will further support the Treasurer in crafting and executing a treasury PAPSS Settlement Operational Strategy that reduces the PAPSS Participants’ Hers tat risk and ensures that each Participants’ financial obligations are made good as they fall due at the end-of-day.
• Treasury PAPSS Settlement Management
• Manage the daily treasury PAPSS settlement and confirmation processes ensuring that all payments are confirmed and executed within defined cut-off times
• The approval and release of payments that may require human intervention from a settlement perspective, to participants
• Treasury PAPSS Activities Analysis:
  • Analyse all final approved inter-participant settlement stage transactions into the general ledger
  • Responsible for the end-to-end overdraft and collateral management in the PAPSS system as well as the Core Banking system
  • Monitor all of participating parties Overdraft Loan activities and review performance on a periodic basis
• Treasury PAPSS Reconciliations and Investigations:
  • Responsible for all PAPSS settlement reconciliations and overdraft utilisations on an intra-day and end of day basis
  • Responsible for the investigation and resolution of any claims or queries relating to the PAPSS participants’ activities on the platform
  • Responsible for ensuring that all matters are closed and highlighted in the PAPSS end-of-day report
• Treasury PAPSS Settlement Data Ownership and Custody:
  • Ownership and safe custody of all treasury PAPSS settlement data valuable for research analytics
  • Responsible for the storage and recording of off-site settlement data necessary for the Bank’s research activities that relate to the PAPSS initiative
  • Supporting the PAPSS Participating parties’ teams in all aspects of settlements by learning their responsibilities also and using the knowledge to improve the PAPSS efficiency
• Treasury PAPSS Reporting, Team management and Communication:
  • Maintaining and providing periodic treasury PAPSS Settlement reporting to senior management as and when required
  • Work closely with Finance and other stakeholders to ensure that all accounting processes take account of the complexities associated with settlement and banking
  • Responsible for maintaining effective communication channels with participating entities, and colleagues including Management on matters that relate to PAPSS settlement activities
  • Responsible for ensuring that within the treasury PAPSS team there is adequate cover during absences by initiating frequent staff training and practice sessions
  • Responsible for ensuring that all PAPSS functional activities are fully documented, including a periodical updates

• Other
  • Any other duties that may be assigned to the role holder by Senior Management from time to time.

Requirements

• A First Degree in a relevant discipline i.e. Accounting, Financial Management, Economics, numerical or other related disciplines and a postgraduate degree in a relevant field. Recognised professional certification in a relevant field may be acceptable in lieu of a post graduate degree.
• Master's degree in area of Finance, Economics, Accountancy or MBA with a specialisation in Finance or Mathematical Sciences with a speciality in Financial Mathematics;
• Recognised Professional Qualification in Treasury Settlements will be a strong added advantage.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience working in a treasury settlement function either in a corporate institution, but preferably in the financial services industry.
• Solid grounding in financial systems database methodologies and financial modelling.
• Solid experience in working with Treasury Management Systems and/or inter-company netting processes.
• Operational experience in a financial department with significant systems exposure.
• Previous experience in a treasury environment and solid understanding of treasury operations.
• People and project management.
• Knowledge of treasury, debt capital markets, financial instruments and structures.
• Advanced Excel skills and computer literacy (e.g. SQL, Crystal Reports);
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Knowledge of the Bank’s other working languages is an added advantage (French, Arabic and Portuguese); and
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including ability to organize and manage human resources from varied cultural backgrounds to attain goals.

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Reference Number: MTAFX10

Responsibilities

• This role will help the Bank to achieve its mission of “stimulating a consistent expansion of and diversification of African trade so as to rapidly increase Africa’s share of global trade, while operating as a first class, profit oriented, socially responsible financial institution and a Centre of excellence in African trade matters”.
• Reporting to the Group Treasurer, the candidate is responsible for providing support to the Treasury & Markets Balance Sheet Management function which sits within the Treasury Business Support Unit in order to ensure that treasury responsibilities are delivered, with risk consciousness at all times, and in an effective and efficient manner.
• The successful candidate shall work as part of the Treasury Business Support team responsible for Balance Sheet management and contribute to the delivery of the Treasury & Markets wider consolidated balance scorecard.
• The role is to support the Treasury Business Support function within the Group Treasury Division relating to Balance Sheet data analysis, data collation, balance sheet modelling, system testing, risk identification, measurement and response documentation, policies and procedure manual updates and Balance Sheet Management reporting.
• The role will support the Treasury & Markets Business Support (Balance Sheet Management) core primary remit of risk identification, assessment/measurement and reporting.
• Balance Risk Analysis, Monitoring and Management
• Responsible for identifying, modelling, analysing, measuring/quantifying and reporting all balance sheet financial risks i.e. interest risk, foreign exchange or currency risk, duration risk, yield risk etc.
• Responsible for developing Asset & Liabilities Management (ALM) processes and procedure manual to support management of key balance sheet risks.
• Responsible for analyzing key balance sheet metrics to identify drivers, trends and risk to inform recommendation on positioning and optimization of treasury management strategies to the Group Treasurer, Senior Management and the Assets & Liabilities Committee (ALCO).
• Responsible for preparing and reviewing the Bank’s balance sheet open positions and making necessary recommendations to the Group Treasurer.
• Responsible for leading the development and quantification of a robust and documented interest rate and liquidity risk evaluation processes in the Treasury & Markets Division.
• Champion the production of key inputs and work with stakeholders on balance sheet stress-testing exercises.
• Build ALM models to inform Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) and enable measurement of the Bank’s Asset- Liability gap.
• Ownership of the Treasury cost-curve from modelling to feeding into all relevant pricing and valuations feeds i.e. FTP process, fund raising guidance, financial reporting etc.

Pricing and Valuation Management:

• Responsible for championing the pricing of financial instruments (i.e. loan pricing, derivatives pricing etc.)
• Responsible for analyzing and reporting the mark-to-market valuations of financial instruments for internal use as well as for clients.
• Responsible for periodic review of pricing model updates and circulation of the Bank’s benchmark pricing shared with the business origination team as pricing guidance.
• Work with key internal stakeholders to price products and project.
• Be the go-to on all risk-base pricing matter i.e. FTP, Benchmark pricing, point-in-time valuations e.t.c.
• Responsible for supporting the rollout and coordination of a new FTP framework, methodology and engine across functional line of business by leading detail discussions with various senior stakeholders explaining key changes in the process, methodology and funding rates.
• Ownership of the Bank’s end-to-end benchmark pricing process.

Covenants Management and Reporting:

• Responsible for the preparation of all Covenant Certificates and reports and submitting same to all lenders of the Bank.
• Co-ordinate, internally, the collation of all information covenants from all the responsible functions, review of same and subsequent submission to lenders.
• Responsible for reviewing all covenants for the Bank’s liability portfolio and ensuring standardization across the borrowing portfolio.
• Responsible for responding to covenants issues, liaise with the relevant stakeholders in the Bank to get appropriate responses for communication to lenders.
• Responsible for the end-to-end periodic review of the treasury counterparty and Dealers limits process.

Risk and Audit Review Process Management

• Assist with preparation and analysis of audit and risk review schedules as and when required.
• Responsible for developing risk and audit findings action plan and closing all risk and audit related action points.
• Responsible for completing Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) exercise and ensuring the Group Treasurer’s sign-off on time.
• Responsible for the end-to-end management of all issues raised by internal and external Auditors including the Risk Management risk reviews action points.
• Responsible for on-boarding new counterparties, allocating approved limits and enabling them to trade with the Bank on the Bloomberg platform.
• Responsible for setting up all necessary limits in all the systems used by the Treasury & Markets Division.
• Responsible for the periodic preparation of the limits and risk identified summary dashboard report to the Group Treasurer.

Cash and Liquidity Management:

• Responsible for collecting data required for the ILAAP process.
• Responsible for updating the ILAAP models and prepare ILAAP reports.
• Responsible of analysing of ILAAP results, comments and recommendations on liquidity risk management
• Responsible for championing, from Treasury & Markets perspective, all stress-testing related exercises carried out by the Bank, which require Treasury inputs.
• Work with the Market & Risk team in the Risk Management function on areas of financial is management, monitoring and reporting.

Asset-Liability Committee (ALCO) and Liquidity Management Working Group (LMGW)

• Responsible for managing the end-to-end ALCO and/or the LMWG meetings whilst acting as the Secretariat on a rotational basis with colleagues with the TRMA function.
• Responsible for coordinating all full year ALCO and/or the LMWG meeting scheduling for the ALCO members.
• Responsible for preparing and presenting the Treasury & Markets ALCO report and ensuring everyone responsible for submitting ALCO reports, do so as per guided timelines.
• Responsible for maintaining a report submission diary for all functions and preparing quarterly summary ALCO meeting deliberations and decisions made by the ALCO for the President and the Executive Management.
• Responsible for researching and recommending ALCO training for the ALCO members.
• Responsible for assisting the Chairman of the ALCO and the LMWG in coordination of the ALCO/LMWG meetings.
• Responsible for taking ALCO/LMWG meeting notes and subsequently writing minutes and getting them signed-off by the Chairman as living official records of the Bank.
• Responsible for ensuring that all matters arising are followed up and closed.
• Stand-in and perform the Secretariat’s responsibility of the ALCO/LMWG in the absence of the substantive Secretariat.

Treasury Management System (TMS):

• Review all deals posted in the TMS ensuring have substantiating signed-off documentation attached to them.
• Actively get involved in all TMS test cases formulation and the actual system testing.
• Actively be involved in all Treasury Systems reviews and implementation projects.
• Responsible for preparing and submitting weekly reports to the Group Treasurer on statistics of deals posted in the Treasury Management System (TMS), which have back-up documents attached and do not have back -up documents attached.

Treasury & Markets Risk Management and Reporting:

• Responsible for preparing the Treasury & Markets Balance Sheet Management functional monthly reports.
• Responsible for preparing the Treasury & Markets Division internal monthly risk report.
• Responsible for arranging and coordinating Treasury & Markets Division monthly risk discussion meetings and ensuring that these meetings do not fail to take place every month.
• Other
• Any other duties that may be assigned to the role holder by Senior Management from time to time.

Requirements

• A First Degree in a relevant discipline i.e. accounting, financial management, economics, numerical or other related disciplines and a postgraduate degree in a relevant field. Recognised professional certification in a relevant field may be acceptable in lieu of a post graduate degree.
• Master’s degree in area of Finance, Economics, Accountancy or MBA with a specialisation in Finance or Mathematical Sciences with a speciality in Financial Mathematics.
• Recognised Professional Qualification in Treasury Management (MCT, AMCT, CTP, ACI, ACCA, CIMA, CFA) will be a strong added advantage.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience working in a treasury settlement function either in a corporate institution, but preferably in the financial services industry.
• Solid grounding in financial systems database methodologies and financial modelling.
• Solid experience in working with Treasury Management Systems and/or excellent MS Excel Modelling proficiency.
• Excellent experience in a treasury and/or finance department with significant modelling systems exposure.
• Previous experience in a treasury environment and solid understanding of treasury operations.
• People and project management.

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Reference Number: CEBLR20

Responsibilities 

• The role is supposed to help the Bank to achieve its mission “stimulating a consistent expansion of and diversification of African trade so as to rapidly increase Africa’s share of global trade, while operating as a first class, profit oriented, socially responsible financial institution and a centre of excellence in African trade matters” by providing professional advice and support for the effective implementation and use of the Bank’s Management Information System.
• The role of the position holder will be to develop, implement, and maintain technology and solution architecture for Bank’s Information System.
• The technology architect will be responsible for defining the overall technical design of business applications. She/He will act as technical lead, overseeing IT assignments that are aimed at improving the business, and ensuring all parts of the technical components run smoothly.
• The technology architect will be involved in the entire system development life cycle and must understand all aspects of each system, from both a business and technical point of view. This means having a full working knowledge of technologies such as Windows, Linux, RDBMS, Document based DB, Infrastructure, Network, Design Patterns, Web, Mobile, Business Process Modelling (BPM), Cloud integration, Blockchain, Machine Learning as well as knowledge of multiple programming languages (e.g. Java, JavaScript, Scala, Go, Shell, C#, Groovy, Python)
• Hands-on experience on software development and ability to manage complex programs.
• Provide system architecture leadership & quality assurance support to the Bank focusing on complex & innovative proposals & solutions.
• Lead the development of system architecture for robust, reliable and high-performance applications, taking into account functional and technical requirements.
• Define implement and manage the solution architecture and supporting toolset required to build and test complex applications in an efficient and rapid manner.
• Advise on technologies & tools selection and helping in sizing transformation programs.
• Architect complex IT solutions based on emerging technologies for digital transformation.
• Handle request on architecture development for new and existing applications.
• Participate in software selection process.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by management.

Requirements / Qualification and Skills

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant degree from a recognized University, a Master’s degree in a relevant field or a recognized professional qualification in lieu.
• Minimum of 8 years of solid development and solution architecture experience in distributed platforms
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, Scala, Java in a Linux/Windows data centre environment.
• Experience with AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a mission critical service.
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development.
• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence.
• Experience leading high performing development teams.
• Good judgment and the ability to handle stressful situations.
• Broad knowledge of software engineering: languages, frameworks, techniques and industry trends.
• Deep knowledge of REST, Web Services and Microservices space.
• Knowledge and strong experience with Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Knowledge and strong experience with DevOps, Pipelining, Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Github, Archiva, etc.), Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticBeanstalk)
• Knowledge and experience with modern messaging technologies (RabbitMQ, Kafka, AMQP, AWS SQS)
• Knowledge and experience with Big Data platforms (Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Ambari, Flume, Ranger)
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated experience in managing service level agreement with application service providers.
• Ability to communicate and function in a culturally diverse and change oriented setting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Knowledge of the Bank’s other working languages is an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel and to work long hours where required in order to achieve the Bank’s objectives.

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Reference No: LJBLR-ISGRM-0014

Nature & Scope

• The objective of the function is to play a critical role in supporting the development, implementation, and maintenance of information security policies, procedures, and practices to protect Bank’s sensitive information and assets.
• He will collaborate with various teams to assess risks, identify vulnerabilities, and implement effective security measures to mitigate threats.

Functions
Specifically, the function aims to:

• Assist the Bank in Information security governance and risk management activities.
• Assist the bank in attaining information security objectives through development of policies, guidelines & procedures.
• Ensure security policies and procedures are being implemented and maintained.
• Assist in regular internal and external audits exercise.
• Support the day-to-day operations of IT Security and Risk Management.

Duties and Responsibilities
The core tasks, duties, and responsibilities are listed below:

• Policy and Procedure Development: Collaborate with senior management and stakeholders to develop and update information security policies, procedures, and guidelines in accordance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Risk Assessment and Management: Conduct risk assessments to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities to the Bank’s information systems and assets. Develop risk mitigation strategies and ensure their implementation across the organization.
• Security Awareness Training: Develop and deliver security awareness training programs to educate employees about information security best practices, policies, and procedures. Foster a culture of security awareness and compliance throughout the Bank.
• Incident Response and Management: Assist in developing and maintaining an incident response plan. Respond to security incidents promptly, investigate root causes, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Security Monitoring and Analysis: Monitor security systems and tools for suspicious activity, analyze security logs and reports, and investigate anomalies. Take proactive measures to detect and prevent security breaches.
• Compliance and Audit Support: Assist in ensuring compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001). Support internal and external audits and regulatory inspections.
• Third Party and Vendor Risk Management: Assess the security posture of third party vendors and service providers. Review contracts and agreements to ensure compliance with security requirements and standards.
• Security Incident Reporting: Prepare and present regular reports on information security incidents, trends, and metrics to senior management and stakeholders.
• Provide recommendations for improving the organization’s security posture.
• Perform continuous security assessment of the bank’s information systems security architecture.
• Perform continuous risk and control security assessment.
• Conduct regular logical access review and assessment.
• Stay abreast of emerging cloud technologies and proactively assess and evaluate the adoption thereof.
• Responsible for the thorough documentations of implementations, via technical documentation and runbooks
• Stay abreast of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities and controls and proactively provide recommendations and remediations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology / Computer Engineering / Engineering / Management Information Systems or Computer Engineering or other relevant degree from a recognized University, a
• Master’s degree in a relevant field or a recognized professional qualification in lieu;
• Relevant security certifications such as ISC2 CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, OSCP, CEH, equivalent security-related industry certifications
• Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in information security, risk management, or related roles.

Skills, Knowledge, and Attitude:

• Strong understanding of information security principles, standards, and best practices (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework).
• Experience conducting risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex security issues and recommend effective solutions.
• Experience with Linux, Windows operating systems and cloud provider ecosystems such as Amazon AWS and AZURE is a must.
• Practical knowledge of AWS foundation services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration, security, deployment, and automation technologies.
• Experience in architecting, designing, and programming applications and ample experience in high level programming languages such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Visual Basic
• Good understanding of security assessment framework such as CIS benchmark and NIST
• Experience with security tools and technologies (e.g., SIEM, IDS/IPS, DLP, endpoint protection).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Willingness to travel and to work long hours where required to achieve the Bank’s objectives.